Flower Power: The Lessons Flower Power: The Lessons
An article in the financial section of the New York Observer this spring described a company named NetJ.com Corporation.
Jun 8, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Kim Phillips-Fein
The Sri Lankan Patients The Sri Lankan Patients
This time none of that lollygagging elusiveness that began The English Patient.
Jun 1, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom LeClair
Author, Author! Author, Author!
"There are more than a million writers in the United States and they write more than 500,000 books each year, 90% of which never see publication.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Art Winslow
When the CIA Was the NEA When the CIA Was the NEA
In June 1948 George Kennan, director of the State Department's policy planning staff, drafted National Security Directive NSC-10/2.
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael P. Rogin
Harrington’s Dilemma Harrington’s Dilemma
Maurice Isserman's The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington evokes and will enrich the legacy of the last great American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Debs and N...
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Tom Hayden
The Troves of Academe The Troves of Academe
"A university," poet John Ciardi acidly observed, "is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." Add this contemporary counterpunch: A college is what a...
May 25, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Carlin Romano
Sartre’s Roads to Freedom Sartre’s Roads to Freedom
Asked where he was coming from, my friend's son replied, “From the demo against the death of Sartre.” It was April 19, 1980, and the definition fitted perfectly…
May 18, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer
A Closing of the American Kind A Closing of the American Kind
You will recall that when Augie March went to Mexico, he hooked up with an eagle, which he called Caligula.
May 11, 2000 / Books & the Arts / John Leonard
The Intervention Blues The Intervention Blues
Perhaps one of the most fatuous theories ever promulgated was Francis Fukuyama's "End of History," put forth just as, in most parts of the world, history resumed its sanguinary p...
Apr 27, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Ian Williams